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<h1>Example: creating context-sensitive pop-up help</h1>

<p>Context-sensitive help enables a user to easily find information about a specific user interface element. Pop-up help appears in a pop-up window rather than in the Help Viewer. This example is a four-step process that explains how to create context-sensitive pop-up help. </p>

<p>To make context-sensitive pop-up help work, you need to create a text file for your help topics and a header (.h) file, and then include them in your project (.hhp) file.</p>

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<li>The text file contains all of the topics that are used for pop-up help. Each topic ID in the text file must match a symbolic ID in the header file. You can create more than one text file for topics. 

<li>The header file lists the symbolic IDs and numeric IDs for all the dialog boxes and controls in a program. Your software development team should be able to supply a list of IDs for your header file.
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<p>The four steps of the process are as follows:</p>

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<li><a href="cxt_p_topics.htm">Create a text file for pop-up help topics.</A>
<li><a href="cxt_s_header.htm">Create a header file.</A>
<li><a href="cxt_p_textpop.htm">Create a <code>[TEXT POPUPS]</code> section in your project file.</A>
<li><a href="cxt4.htm">Include a header file in your project file.</A>
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<h3>Notes</h3>
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<li>Before proceeding, you may want to review some basic <a href="cxtgds.htm">guidelines for creating context-sensitive help topics</A>.
<li>If your help doesn't work as expected, you can <a href="cxtfix.htm">troubleshoot pop-up help problems</A>.
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